Here’s the William Howard steamer docking in Silver Springs as it traveled along the waters shipping people and product from Jacksonville to Ocklawaha amongst other places along the rivers.
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This is the Taylor High School girl’s basketball team in 1947. The book this is in claims this to be Taylor High School in Baker County, but I don’t believe there ever was a Taylor High School in Baker County.[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Here is the Lakeland Brass Band waiting to play for the soon arriving President Grover Cleveland. This photo is from ‘Yesterday’s Polk County’ by Louise Frisbee. You can purchase a copy by clicking here or below.
Here is Governor Fuller Warren with Rosemary Carpenter, Miss Florida, and Miss Fernandina in 1949. Dig Gov Warren’s snazzy shoes! This photo is from Literary Florida , May 1949.
This is Ruth Mathies, the Tri-City Queen, posing with one of the tiki guardians at Tiki Gardens in Pinellas County in 1962. Tiki Gardens closed in 1988, but if you look real close to can still find remnants of the[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
This ad is from the July, 1949, copy of ‘Literary Florida’. Here’s what the location of Warwick’s Village looks like today: View Larger Map
Jacksonville had to put a ban on horse racing in Downtown Jacksonville after the challengers got out of hand and caused chaos for business. Jousting was a very popular sport at the time, as this group was involved in. This[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Melbourne A Century of Memories by Melbourne Chamber of Commerce My rating: 5 of 5 stars This book is part of my Swampy’s Florida book collection: This is a wonderful selection of columns telling of the history of Melbourne and[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Swampy’s Postcard Saturday: Robert Richter Hotel, Miami Beach
on September 21, 2013
at 1:48 am
This is a postcard of the Robert Richter Hotel mailed December 26th, 1951 to the Vegetable Section of the USDA in Wyndmoor Pennsylvania. There is a sub-section mentioned – E.R.R.L. Don’t know what that means but taht is where the[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Swampy visited the Dunnellon Chamber of Commerce this morning. Swampy’s Rob Smith, Jr. and the Chamber discussed tourism ideas and how folks can better know Dunnellon as a tourism destination. Talked about the upcoming Swampy’s Florida: Dunnellon and the new[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Gold Coast by Elmore Leonard My rating: 3 of 5 stars This is part of my Swampy’s Florida book collection. Not sure why I had trouble connecting with this book. It does occur to me that I’ve had trouble connecting[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Just had a lot of fun on Twitter commenting about locations & history as ‘Flipper’s New Adventure’ (1964) on TCM played. Have to do that again sometime. Here’s the IMDb page for the film: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0058105/ By the way, you can[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…